What a state - the union (Update)

Quote of the day:

Love is not a doctrine. Peace is not an international agreement. Love and Peace are beings who live as possibilities in us. [Mary Caroline Richards, Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and Person - from CCIE this morning]

A friend emailed me this morning and asked me what I think off Barack Obama's State of the Union address. She was concerned that some people are thinking his Presidency is over already. 

I replied: "He is so different from what everyone is used to that it freaks people out. I think he is wonderful. I love the way he speaks to us as if we are all intelligent human beings. I love that he doesn't allow himself to stoop to the level everyone else goes down to. I am still an avid supporter. But I am aware that this country is populated by very deep ignorance ... I can only hope that perhaps those evolved enough can help him stay in for a second term." We only get what we deserve, and we surely had that for 8 years. 

I sit quietly and I watch and I listen. So much rubbish all around - ignorance, bigotry and hatred. 

And then I breathe deeply and think, "But we have him now - right now." And I become calm again.

A year ago at Mining Nuggets: Hear the crowd roaring

Update:

I smiled when I got to work today, and read my Obama quote of the day, that I have on my desk calendar: "A Year With Obama."

If he would read my blog I would remind him what he said in a University Commencement Address in Southern New Hampshire on May 19, 2007:

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Comments

[ainelivia]

Amen to your reply to your friend, I so believe the same.